Breeding Ground by Jaid Black

Author:Jaid Black [Black, Jaid]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Published: 2010-02-13T07:19:37+00:00

“But over the course of millions of years of evolution…” A frown marred Alex’s features. “I don’t know what I’m trying to say,” she muttered, “but certainly more happened to the biological structure of humans than being strong, fast, and agile.”

“Undoubtedly.”

“Then…?”

“I do not know. I’ve nothing to compare us to. At least not until…you. If,” she emphasized, “you are who you say you are, little warrior.” Fija shrugged. “Other than the Book of the Dead Prophets, Takuri possess no knowledge of years gone by—according to you, one hundred million years gone by.”

“Do you think I am who I say I am?”

Silence.

“Yes,” Fija said softly. “You look different, you carry an unfamiliar scent, and you are convincingly ignorant of our world.” She sighed. “This is why I brought you here. To find out the truth.”

Finally they were getting somewhere. “And you will do that how?”

“Follow me,” the Amazon murmured. “Into the most sacred lair of this temple.”

Goose bumps zinged up and down Alex’s spine, but she followed nevertheless. She had no idea what it was Fija meant to show her, but gut instinct whispered it would finally— finally—answer her questions.

Her host led her down a literal maze of corridors, up three sets of twisting staircases, and then through another series of narrow halls. Finally, they reached their destination—the entryway to a chamber that was, again, flanked by female guards. Just like before, the women warriors bowed to Fija’s authority and permitted them unquestioned entry.

The further up they got, the less ventilated, and therefore hotter, it became. For once Alex was grateful for the conical hat she wore. It kept her hair up and off her perspiring neck. Fija, all but naked, didn’t seem to be affected by the heat.

“What about men—human males?” Alex asked as the doors behind them were closed and the Amazon prepared to open one final door. “Why are they lowly chattel in this world? Are they biologically inferior? What?”

“In some ways, yes, but in other ways, truth be told, no.” She sank an antiquated looking skeleton key into the door they stood in front of. “But biology has nothing to do with the reasons behind shielding them from knowledge.”

Alex quirked an eyebrow.

“Tradition needs be upheld because they are weak-minded,” Fija said. “Under male dominion, your people died off because of male greed, pilfering, and perversion of nature.” She turned the key in the lock. “The Book of the Dead Prophets proclaims it thusly.”

“I see.”

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Breeding Ground

Alex couldn’t offer an argument to that. Men had, in fact, caused every war Earth had endured in so far as she was aware. Or at least that was how things had been before the Methuselah left Earth. It was hard to say what the world was like during those crucial years Alex and her crew had been removed from it. Who knew what clout women had held during the years just prior to the biological and nuclear wars? Alex didn’t. Fija didn’t, either.

“What is the Book of the Dead Prophets?” Alex questioned as they entered the most sacred of the temple’s chambers.

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